i7-2600 Intel Core i7-2600 testing with a ASRock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 and AMD Radeon HD 7970 3072MB on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. AMD Radeon HD 7970 - Intel Core i7-2600: Processor: Intel Core i7-2600 @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASRock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 120GB Corsair Force 3 + 1000GB Western Digital WD10EARS-00M + 500GB Western Digital WD5000AADS-0 + 500GB Hitachi HTS72505, Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 7970 3072MB (1050/1500MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: E2350, Network: Broadcom NetLink BCM57781 Gigabit PCIe OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.5.0-18-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.18.0, Display Server: X Server 1.12.3, Display Driver: fglrx 9.1.11 Catalyst 12.9, OpenGL: 4.2.12002, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.2w Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better AMD Radeon HD 7970 - Intel Core i7-2600 . 130.92 |============================= World of Padman 1.2 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD Radeon HD 7970 - Intel Core i7-2600 . 60 |================================= x264 2012-10-03 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD Radeon HD 7970 - Intel Core i7-2600 . 137.16 |============================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better AMD Radeon HD 7970 - Intel Core i7-2600 . 179 |================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better AMD Radeon HD 7970 - Intel Core i7-2600 . 114 |================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better AMD Radeon HD 7970 - Intel Core i7-2600 . 79 |================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better AMD Radeon HD 7970 - Intel Core i7-2600 . 155 |================================ Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better AMD Radeon HD 7970 - Intel Core i7-2600 . 14384.38 |=========================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better AMD Radeon HD 7970 - Intel Core i7-2600 . 14030.13 |=========================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better AMD Radeon HD 7970 - Intel Core i7-2600 . 15500.86 |=========================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better AMD Radeon HD 7970 - Intel Core i7-2600 . 15121.00 |=========================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better AMD Radeon HD 7970 - Intel Core i7-2600 . 1597.16 |============================ 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better AMD Radeon HD 7970 - Intel Core i7-2600 . 18477 |============================== John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better AMD Radeon HD 7970 - Intel Core i7-2600 . 18404333 |=========================== John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better AMD Radeon HD 7970 - Intel Core i7-2600 . 4688 |=============================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD Radeon HD 7970 - Intel Core i7-2600 . 22312.76 |=========================== OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD Radeon HD 7970 - Intel Core i7-2600 . 116.83 |============================= NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better AMD Radeon HD 7970 - Intel Core i7-2600 . 245.16 |============================= NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better AMD Radeon HD 7970 - Intel Core i7-2600 . 8057.87 |============================ NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: MG.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better AMD Radeon HD 7970 - Intel Core i7-2600 . 3947.08 |============================ PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better AMD Radeon HD 7970 - Intel Core i7-2600 . 4887.50 |============================ Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Radeon HD 7970 - Intel Core i7-2600 . 6.10 |=============================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Radeon HD 7970 - Intel Core i7-2600 . 49.93 |============================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Radeon HD 7970 - Intel Core i7-2600 . 8.36 |=============================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Radeon HD 7970 - Intel Core i7-2600 . 100 |================================ Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Radeon HD 7970 - Intel Core i7-2600 . 77.95 |============================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Radeon HD 7970 - Intel Core i7-2600 . 6.10 |=============================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Radeon HD 7970 - Intel Core i7-2600 . 14.04 |============================== FFmpeg 1.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Radeon HD 7970 - Intel Core i7-2600 . 17.74 |============================== POV-Ray 3.6.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Radeon HD 7970 - Intel Core i7-2600 . 680 |================================ Tachyon 0.98.9 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD Radeon HD 7970 - Intel Core i7-2600 . 14.65 |==============================